Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Parent taxon: Nuculana according to E. J. Moore 1983
See also Coan et al. 2000, Hertlein and Grant 1972 and Huber 2010
Sister taxa: Nuculana (Borissia), Nuculana (Costanuculana), Nuculana (Dacryomya), Nuculana (Politoleda), Nuculana (Praesaccella), Nuculana (Scaeoleda), Nuculana (Tenuileda), Nuculana (Thestyleda), Nuculana acuta, Nuculana acutilineata, Nuculana akidota, Nuculana alpina, Nuculana andrewi, Nuculana antarctirostrata, Nuculana asiatica, Nuculana biangulata, Nuculana chapmani, Nuculana coelatella, Nuculana concentrica, Nuculana cowlitzensis, Nuculana crassiparva, Nuculana cultellus, Nuculana cuneata, Nuculana curvirostris, Nuculana decora, Nuculana dewalquei, Nuculana doris, Nuculana elmana, Nuculana emarginata, Nuculana etheridgei, Nuculana excavata, Nuculana fluvilutea, Nuculana forcarti, Nuculana gabbii, Nuculana gnomon, Nuculana gracillima, Nuculana grasslei, Nuculana jamaicensis, Nuculana konishii, Nuculana liciata, Nuculana mariae, Nuculana miaocunensis, Nuculana minima, Nuculana minuta, Nuculana moriyai, Nuculana multilineata, Nuculana oxia, Nuculana oxyrhyncha, Nuculana parkei, Nuculana parva, Nuculana pernula, Nuculana posterolaevia, Nuculana probellula, Nuculana redondoensis, Nuculana rostellata, Nuculana rostratruncata, Nuculana semen, Nuculana semicrenulata, Nuculana smithvillensis, Nuculana socialis, Nuculana spheniopsis, Nuculana sphenopsis, Nuculana thompsoni, Nuculana timorensis, Nuculana triangulata, Nuculana trivitate, Nuculana trumani, Nuculana undulostriata, Nuculana verrilliana, Nuculana vexillata, Nuculana virgo, Nuculana vitrea, Nuculana waterhousei, Nuculana wautebbeana, Nuculana wautubbeana, Nuculana waynensis, Nuculana whitmani, Nuculana willetti, Nuculana williamettensis, Nuculana zieteni, Leda decorata, Leda catasarca, Leda magna, Leda coelata, Leda becki, Leda nitida, Leda renevieri, Leda obolella, Leda deffneri, Leda discors, Leda calcarensis, Leda semistriata, Leda plana, Leda crassiparva, Leda minuta, Leda vanuxemi, Leda transversa, Leda excavata, Leda caudata, Leda trumani, Leda distincta, Leda lacryma, Leda doris, Leda striatula, Leda cochlearella, Leda siegsdorfensis, Leda scutula, Leda alkiensis, Leda stewardi, Leda coelatoides, Leda zelima, Nucula (Leda) subzelima, Leda (Spinula), Leda leia, Leda sulcellata, Leda oxyrhyncha, Leda gabrielis, Leda pygmaea, Leda semenoides, Leda scalata, Leda haunsbergensis, Leda (Leda), Leda reussi, Leda ingens, Leda parkei, Leda carolinensis, Leda opulenta, Leda bavarica, Leda (Lembulus), Leda claviformis, Leda vaticani, Leda whitfieldi, Leda magnopsis, Leda schiavi, Leda subtrigonalis, Leda ozarkola, Leda rangei, Leda elliptica, Leda dijki, Leda houstonia, Leda kittensis, Leda barranca, Leda projecta, Leda wissmanniana, Leda minuta, Leda wautubbeana, Leda semipolita, Leda radiata, Leda zitteli, Leda borsoni, Leda glabra, Leda subtrigona, Leda praeradiata, Leda lincolnensis, Leda striatella, Leda subquadrata, Leda pistorupes, Leda protexta, Crassoleda crassatelloides
Subtaxa: Nuculana (Nuculana) arenicola Nuculana (Nuculana) confusa Nuculana (Nuculana) elongorostrata Nuculana (Nuculana) extenuata Nuculana (Nuculana) fossa Nuculana (Nuculana) hamata Nuculana (Nuculana) leonina Nuculana (Nuculana) minuta Nuculana (Nuculana) naibandensis Nuculana (Nuculana) navisa Nuculana (Nuculana) odiyamensis Nuculana (Nuculana) senni Nuculana (Nuculana) tenuisulcata
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Canada (2: Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador collections), Thailand (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (13: Alaska, California, Maine)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Malaysia (7)
• Pliocene of Japan (1), United States (1: California)
• Miocene of Austria (1), Chile (2), Japan (2), Morocco (2), the Russian Federation (13)
• Oligocene of the Russian Federation (4), United States (1: Alaska)
• Eocene of Barbados (3), the Russian Federation (3)
• Paleocene of the Russian Federation (1)
• Cretaceous of Egypt (1), India (3), Japan (3), Jordan (1), Poland (1), United States (4: California, South Dakota, Texas)
• Triassic of Iran (10), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1)
Total: 83 collections including 106 occurrences